Hose-coupling



S. LIGHTBURNE, Jr.

HOSE COUPLING.

No. 310,834. PatentedJan. 13,1885.

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STAFFORD LIGHTBURNE, JR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HOSE-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,834, dated January13, 1885. Application filed April 21, 1884. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern: head of the female member by a metallic ring,Be it known that I, STAFFQRD LIGHTBURNE, I, or by other suitable means,the ring fitting Jr., of the city of St. Louis, in the State of whollywithin the cylindrical wall 0, so as to Missouri, have invented acertain new and permit the body'to press on both the ring and usefulImprovement in Hose-Couplings, of packing equally. The packing may beheld which the following is a full, clear, and exact in place andcompressed to prevent leakage description, reference being had to theaccombetween a shoulder, J of the head and the inpanying drawings,forming part of this specification, and in which- 10 Figure 1 is a sideview. Fig. 2 is an end to the shoulders, as it presses the packingoutview of the female member. Fig. 3 is an end ward against the walls ofthe head of the fe- View of the male member. Fig. 4 is a longimalemember, thus preventing the slightest tudinal section of the female member, taken on leakage. The packing has an interior flange, line 4 4,Fig. 2, the packing being shown in L, inclined inwardly toward the malemember,

1 side view. Fig. 5 is alongitudinal section of and which fits a ainstthe end of the male the male member, taken on line 5 5, Fig. 8; memberin an annular seat, L, formed with and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectionof the two interior walls, L, when the parts are conparts put together,taken on line 6 6, Fig. 3. nected. The packingbutton differs from Mypresent invention relates to certain imthose shown in the patentsreferred to in that 20 provements on the couplings shown and deit onlyhas a flange, L, at one end, instead of scribed in Letters Patent of theUnited States both, the other end abutting against the inner M grantedto me, No. 255,523, March 28, 1882, end of the body of the femalemember. and N 0. 263,415, August 29, 1882. I claim as my invention Mypresent invention consists in features of The coupling herein described,consistin 2 5 novelty hereinafter fully described, and of female memberB, having a body and head pointed out in the claim. secured together. byscrew-threads, the pack- Referring to the drawings, Arepresents the ing0, formed with a cylindrical wall, 0, havmale andBthefemale member ofthecoupling. ing an interior flange, L, inclined inwardly They areconnected as shown and described toward the male member, and the malemem- 0 in the patents referred to, and are formed the her A, formed withan interior wall, L, and same, except each has a marginal rim, D, andannular seat L, the said head having shoulder the body of the femalemember is shown with J the wall of the packing fitting between theshoulder and the body, and the interiorflange of a socket, to beattached to a hydrant, and occupying the seat and having its inner edge3 5 the body of the female member, instead of beresting against theinterior wall, as shown and 7 5 ing cast in one piece with the head iscast 1n described. a separate piece and the two joined or con- STAFFORDLIGHTBURNE, JR. I nected by one screwing over the other, as In presenceofshown in Figs. 4 and 6. Gno. H. KNIGHT, 0 0 represents an elasticpacking, held in the BENJN. A. KNIGHT.

